In the Swim of Summer
T he campus is a hive of activity of the physical kind,
proof 伽t
summer is finally here! Check into the wide variety of courses organized by SAO and others. It’
s never too late to get fit. A sampling of activities available for all staff and their f位也lies..
In Self-Defense:Master Ftmg Sum Yuen puts the inaugural Pa Kua class through its paces. Pa Kua has been called the "thinking-person’s martial art". Classes are held every Saturday from 3 pm in the LGl area outside the sports hall. For more i.nforrr叫ion，凹nailMichael Cheng of the Social Club at Jo，叫1g.
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Water Babes:More than 100 children of all ages, and also adults, are learn-ing to swim this summer in classes taught 的 Englishby Dee Reid, who also speaks Canton-ese. Swimming classes will nm tlu'Ol1ghJtm巴， takea break in July and August, and resume in Sep-tember. For information, contact Jean Hudson at 2358-8295.
UST staff and students have a heavy practice schedule this month in prepa-ration for the annual Dragon Boat Races on 20 June at 伽 SaiKtmg Pier. UST will compete in both men
’
s and women’
s large (20-person) boat races and small (eight-person) boat races. All are welcome to cheer the te也nson to victory. The Social Club is planning to provide a bus to the pier.• Scuba-Mania:
Don
’
t let last year’
s shark attacks put you off from learning to scuba dive, says K. K. Li, director of the Hong Kong Institute of Scuba Training Ltd. Mr Li will lead this year’s courses,
organ-ized by SAO.’,Because of the shark attacks last ye缸，snumbers were low. But people are only afraid because they don’
t know anytl吐.ngabout sharks. The shark is one of the most beautiful creatures underwater, and once you are confident in diving you will want to see one.’, For details, contact P.E. Officer Theresa Leung at x6690, or Mr Li at 2334-7543/7568.Some of the younger campus residents (ages 4-7) enjoying their weekly ballet class taught by Caroline Trostel every Tuesday afternoon in LG1027. For class information, contact Jean Hudson at 2358-8295.
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Engineering Programs
Get Accreditation
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of Engineeringhas
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full accredita ti.on for one of its programs and provisional accreditation for oth-ers from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).The School was officially notified at the end of April of HKIE
’s
decision to grant full accreditation to the Elech·ical and ElectronicEngineering program, and provisional accreditation to the Cherni-cal Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Engineering
Manage-ment, and Computer Engineering programs.
Provisional accreditation is given when a new program is
wait-ing for its first students to graduate-full accreditation can only be
granted when the program has its first cohort of graduates. ’,We are very happy with the decision,’, says Dr Neil Mickleborou阱， AssociateDean of Engineering and chair of the
School
’
s Accreditation Task Forc巴，The School is also waiting for decisions on the programs of Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering-accr吋itationteams from HKIE visited the campus in March.
Dr Chih·Chen Chang leads a tour of one of the laboratories during the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering’s recent Open Day. About 120 visitors
from industry and Government agencies attended the Open Day, the Depa『tment'sfirst. The Department was 『ecentlyassessed by the HKIE's accreditation team, along with
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Both are hoping for fut/ accreditation
In some ways, HKUST has been pioneering the accreditation
procedures: tmtil a few years ago, all professional engineering
pro-grams in Hong Kong had to be assessed by the Joint Board of Mod-erators in London. This is the first time that the HKIE has had the
power to accredit local programs.
’'HKIE had just been admitted to the Washington Accord when
we applied for accreditation, so it was a learning experience for both the School and H阻E，’， saysDr Mickleborough. The Wash-ington Accord is an agreement si♂1ed by the professional
engi-neering bodies in eight cotmh·ies, including US, UK, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, freland, South Africa and Hong Kong, in which
they agree to recogr也eengineering qualifications granted in the other cmmtries.
’,Receiving accreditation from the HKIE is like giving our
stu-dents a passport to go and work in these cotmh·ies as engineering graduates and then as chartered engineers,'’ says Dr Mickleborough.
Submit仙1gthe Computer Science program for accreditation
2
SBM and
Wharton
School of
Business Set Up
Exchange Program
T he deans of SBM and
the top-rated business school in the US, the
Wharton School of the
Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, for-malized an undergraduate
student exchange program at a signing ceremony on 24
Ma于
Under the program, every year, three students
from each business school will have an opportunity to
study at the other school. ’,One of 01u key
objec-tives is to develop an inter
-national perspective for our
students,’, said Prof Yuk司 Shee Chan, Dean of SBM.
His cotmterpart at the
Wharton School, Prof Thomas P. Gerrity, s位d，’，We are excited about establish呵
inga p但包1ershipwith a 1mi · versity regarded as a leader in business education in the region. Strategically, this ex-change program w山 fac山－
ta te opportunities for
Wharton students to live in and le也·nabout one of the most important economies and fastest growing regions
in the war祠．’，
was also a pioneering step.’'There are no computer science pro -8位ns in Hong Kong, or virtually the world, that have been ac -credited. Even in North America they are s且ltrying to sort out the
criteria," says Dr Mickleborough. HKIE and the Engineering School agreed to defer a decision tmtil HKIE develops criteria for
Compu-ter Science.
After three or four years on a work-based h·aining program, engineering graduates from an accredited program can apply through the HKlE to become a chartered engineer. "It
’
s important because ch也﹒teredengineers c但1then take legal responsibility for their projects;they become professionals. And, of course, once they become a chartered engineer th凹， salarygoes up considerably andthey
’re
in great demand," adds Dr Mickleborough.Students who graduate under provisional accreditation con-vert retrospectively to full accreditation when it is gr拍1ted. E枷﹛﹜I' ~、Joie:The Acco, Iii Depart忱川附E悶d戶﹛II耐何diInti for ifs pr o-grm11s戶。IIIlhe Hong Ko11g Sociely of Acco1111fn11fs in 1994. St11de11ls grnd11nli11g 叫lhn B BA en II have exe11叭。吋＇Olli 叩 lolOof lhe 14 pc仰·slhnl II挖ey II 圳日
lo become n cerlified ncco1111ln11I.
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’,I'm retiring the 31st of May and leav-ing the campus on the 4th of J山.1e.I
’
ve been here six years. My husband andI are going back to our home 凶 Los
Angeles for the summer. And in
Sep-tembe1~ I
’
m planr也可 to teach basicEnglish at a vocational high school in Beii
]
ing, where I was born. I was sup-posed to be an English teacher whenI graduated from Taiwan Normal
University with a m司or in English.
But when I went to the United States in 1960, there were no
Eng-lish-as-a-second-language programs. So I entered library sh1dies.
Working in China is a good opporhmity for us. My husband and I have always wanted to do something for our roots, for our home
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’,I plan to go to Europe for three weeksto Prague, Austria and Ital于 Iwant to
go to Prague and my girlfriend wants to go to Italy. When we go between these two places by train, we'll have to go
through Austria, so we'll stop there too. I'm taking two cameras and 15 rolls of film and hope to take some good pho-tos.’, ON THE LIGHT SIDE -
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IEuge11e Wυ111:1; （ γ.P-lW):My plan is to get back home to Berkeley and enjoy my garden and smell the roses. I’mnotaski山ulg訂－
dene1~ but I do have a green thumb.
Things I pl位1tgrow; they don
’
t die on me. I will also see mygrandchil-dren who normally live in Paris and will be visiting. And I plan to spend some time thinking about the next phase of my caree1~ probably my last. What I want to do is set up a
new technology-based business. I have been collecting my ideas.’, (Prof Wo嗯，slast day in his post is 14 June.)
的自己ll L的（DA.PA):
’,I w山 joina tour to New Zealand and visit some of my relatives and classmates there. I have been to Australia before, but not
New Zealand. I want to see the difference between the two, even though their
cur-rency is q叫teclose to each other. From pic-tures I find the scenery of New Zealand to be like Switzerland, quite impressive.’,
see two of the best known modem examples of
musical theater. Impressive as 出eyboth 也·e,I
can
’
t help but wonder whatever happened to the musical comedy? Both of these plays arebased on rather sad, indeed depressing, stories.
叮1esame is true of much grand opera, but the
stories in opera are usually so far-fetched the tragedy can be ignored in favor of admiring the
sets, costwnes and singing.
In Les Misen泌的， mostof the principal
characters had been q山tebelie, ably
extermi-nated by the last scene which featured two of their‘ghosts escorting the cenh·al character to (we presume) his heavenly reward. Still, since
his inexplicable goo出essdrove an otherwise
sane policeman to suicide, I suspect he may have had to do some fast talking with St Peter
at the Pearly Gates.
Putting aside my nostalgia for the less
de-rnanding likes of South P叫阿c and Dn111n Yan-kees to look into the future, where will today
’
s trend for the morbid musical take us? In mycrys叫 ball,I see a Broadway marquee flashing
I
，叫s IL向en
ing its rt垃1in Hong Kong. It was a ve1y 凶p
pressive piece of theater, and the cast h·aveling
with this version of ’,the world’s most pop吐ar
musical’ , (to use their own humble
descrip-tion) did a wonderful j。b
Since I also ca可htthe Ph仰的川 ofthe Op
-Clηwhile it was in town, I have managed to
GENESIS, 5 June 1996
KAFKA!
A musical h'ibute to Franz Kafka
’
s visionof modem man’s 也1xiety-riddenand
gro-tesque alienation in an unintelligible, hostile and indifferent world!!
Can
’
t you just imagine the great 尬1esfrom The Trial, in which a man is persecuted and put to death by the inscrutable agencies
of an w1fathomable court of law? Or the fa-rnous Metn111orphosis scene, in which a young
man suffers a literal and symbolic transfor
rnation into a huge, repulsive, fatally woLmded insect? And don
’
t forget th日tpar-able of a torture machine 也1dits operators and
victims’”的 PenniColony.
叭月1atgreat music! Who will be able to
forget the lead singer in a cockroach suit belt-ing out’,Even a Bug Needs Love”,Or that
great song from The Penni Colony scene’,,The Things You Do To Me’,. We'll all be ht凹uning that one in 2002.
(Note: some of the descriptive lnng11age above is from
the Grolier Encyclopedia
’
s article on Fm11z Kafka)STUDENT FOCUS
Results Roundup
4
Song Fest Hits High
Note
Pictured above are Lai Chi Kee and Kwok Pak Ki,
both of Physics, this year's winners of the Science Students' Association Singing Contest. Lai and Kwok were judged to be the best by contest judge
Leung Wai Ken, a professional in the music busi-ness.
"Teeth"
Brush
Opposition Aside
In the grand final of the mini-soccer
com-petition, organized by the Football Club, "Teeth" defeated PLK 9:2 to take the
championship. "Teeth" were formed in honour of one of the football club's key team members who had to rest from playing for several months after
sustain-ing an injury in the joint-university league. Congratulations Teeth.
Business Beats Science to
Win
Inter-School
Basketball Competition
In the finals of Inter-Schop! Basketball Competition,
played on 10 May, a team from Business (above)
de-feated a team from Science to take the championship.
Champions: Yau Sing Ga (Business) 1st Rwmer-up: Science (BICH)
2nd RLumer-up: Physics
3rd Runner-up: Staff
IEEM
Softball Team
Hits
Competitors
for
Six
a
IEEM United (above) faught off a fierce challenge from MAURICE Team in the final of last month's
softball tournament to become champions. The
re-sults, in full, are as follows: Team Awards
Champion Team: 1st Rwmer-up:
2nd Rwmer-up: Individual Awards
Home Run King: Sh·ikeout King: Infield King: Outfield King: '96Most Valued Player: IEEMUnited MAURICE Team
Eastern Never Lose
Justin (LTG) Bong (Emperor)
Dr Vincent Duffy (IEEMUnited) Hemy (Pik Lik Fire)
Maurice (MAURICE Team)
Martial
Arts Team
High
Kicks
Earn Silver Cup
The student Chinese Martial Arts
Soci-ety won a second-place silver cup at the territory-wide contest held by the Asso-ciation of Chinese Martial Arts on 19 May.
The 13 UST contestants were first
runner's-up in the martial arts team demonsh·ation, which saw 13 teams com-peting.
The excellent showing at its first
competition was a boost to the team's
confidence, says society member Butcher Poon Yiu Cheung.
QUESTIONS? ANSWERS!
Save Paper, Save Mr Earth
Q
I know of some medical insurance schemes thatal-low claims from Chinese herbalists. Would it be possible for
our insurer to do the same?
T h i s is what
stu-dents using the first floor computer barn are·
being asked to do by Green Melody, a group
of environmentally
con-scious students dedi-cated to spreading the word about environ-mental protection.
In a new, practical approach to raising stu-dents' awareness of
en-vironmental issues, Green Melody is con-centrating its efforts on cutting the amount of tree-hungry paper used in the bustling computer barns each day.
For example, on Friday, 10 May, 16 reams of A4 paper were loaded into the printers in the first floor computer barn. At 500 sheets per ream, that adds
up to a staggering 8,000 sheets of pa-per a day. And that's only in one com-puter barn.
According to Dominic Yuen, chairperson of Green Melody, it's com-mon to see piles of unclaimed print-outs left at the end of the day. Although the CCST staff collects these sheets and uses them as scrap paper, Green
Melody wants students to help them reduce the number of printouts.
"We're asking our fellow students
to think twice about whether they re-ally need to print out that e-mail
mes-sage or print out another copy of that lette1/' says Dominic.
Green Melody is working closely with SEPO and CCST to implement its ideas. After a joint meeting of all three parties, the students got the go-ahead
to hoist a banner in the computer barn. "But this is just the beginning of our program," says Dominic.
"The students came to us with a proposal and we thought some of the ideas were very creative," says Theresa Lo, head of User Services at CCST. "It's
also good to have feedback from the students-they are the ones who really know what other students want, what
sort of problems they have." CCST is currently looking at im-plementing duplex or double-sided printing in the computer barns, an-other Green Melody idea. Other ideas include putting stickers on PCs and
GENESIS, 5 June I 996
A sick-looking Mr Earth exhorts students in the first-floor computer barn to cut the amount of paper they use.
setting up bookmarks and tips to help
students avoid printing problems. "It
is possible to split a print page in two,
so that you can print two smaller docu-ments on one page to save papei/' says Ms Lo.
Some students think the quota of
400 free printouts for each student per
academic year could be part of the problem. Woo Chun Kit, a first-year ELEC student thought shtdents would use less paper if they had to pay for it. The next step in the campaign is
to increase the rate of paper recycling by students.
"There are
re-cycling bins, but the
sign on the side of the bin is always covered up. No one knows it is a recy-cling bin and so the
students all throw their waste paper in the rubbish bin,"
says Hugo Cheung, last year's Green Melody chairper-son. When asked,
several students said they had no idea there was a recycling bin in the computer barn. Green Melody is hoping to liaise with EMO and re-place the bins with easily
identifi-able recycling sacks.
"It's quite exciting to see this group of students take up this ini-tiative," says Dr Sam Yu of SEPO,
who has worked closely with Green Melody. "I can feel their
commit-ment and they're really enthusias-tic in pushing their programs."
A
Alice Fok (DP): "The Pers01mel Office has been keeping in touch with the University's insurance broker on developments in the local medical insurance market. We understand that thereare as yet few well developed insurance schemes which provide for claims from Chinese herbalists. Insurers, in general, are hesi-tant to include this coverage in view of the lack of a Govern-ment-recognized registration system for Chinese herbalists. There may be individual insurance plans which provide for such
claims but most likely only at a high premium and for a limited
coverage. Apart from the premium consideration, the
Univer-sity also needs to maintain broad comparability of the medical benefits enjoyed by our staff with those enjoyed by our counter-parts in other UGC-funded institutions and in the civil service."
Q
Could the University clarify its policy on sick leaveduring pregnancy? I have heard of an instance where a preg-nant member of staff phoned in sick but was pressured into working by her superiors.
A
Alice Fok (DP): "The same sick leave policy applies to all staff members regardless of whether or not pregnancy isin-volved. In general, sick leave for more than two days needs to be supported by a medical certificate, but where deemed
neces-sary, the University may also require a medical certificate in case
of absence from work on account of sickness for two days or less. In exercising the discretion, supervisors are expected to give
due consideration to the welfare of the staff member concerned and at the same tin1e to guard against possible misuse of the
sick leave provisions."
E-111nil your q11eslio11s to genesis orfnx f/,e111 to 2358-0537.
Giving Others a Helping
H
and
T h e summer session is the perfect time to take it easy. Exams a.re
fin-ished, lectures are over and scl10ol is out for a whole tluee and a half months. But members of the Student Social Service Society won't be spending all of their time relaxing; they'll be busy helping others.
First on the agenda is a day camp with a group of single-parent families in July. "We meet about twice a month to discuss ideas and plan our activities.
One of om ideas was to help single parent fami
-lies, most of whom are poor," says Kina Lee Ka Yee, external secretary for SSSS.
About 90 students, pa.rents and children will take pa.rt in the camp, with a boat trip also planned for October.
One of the society's long-tenn programs is to form sb·ong ties with U1e Lai Chi Kok O Pui Shan
Boy's Home, a juvenile detention center. "We have been there to visit the cente1; just to listen to the boys, talk to them and help them with U1eir
home-work, and some of us have become penfriends with them," says Mabel YeLmg Mei Ping, chairperson
of the society.
boys to find out what help elderly people l.iving on their own need. Then we
will go with the boys to visit the elderly people and help them in whatever way they need," says Mabel.
"Most of the elderly people live on their own, so loneliness is a major
problem," says Kina. "Some of U1em just want someone to talk to, others want help with shopping or cleaning."
"I think the boys at U1e center are very willing to do that. I think they will enjoy it," says Eric Yip ChLm Hung, the society's publ.ic re-lations officer. "And it will be good
for U1em. Given tl1e chance, U1ey can change."
Over the sLLinme1; with tl1e help of the center's social services office, the society is plamting to take
·the program one stage furU1er and involve the in-mates in helping others.
"We a.re drawing up a questiormaire with the
Helping hands: members of the Student Social Service Society accompany mentally handicapped children on an outing fast year.
The last activity platmed for the
summer is a joint b·aining camp with students from other LUU.versities. At
the tlu·ee-day camp in Fa.tiling, about
100 students will share their experi-ences in orgaJuzing and providing
services for others. "It will also give
us a good opportmuty to cmnmwu-cate with social service societies
from other LU1iversities, aJ1d maybe
we'll organize some joint pro
-grams," says Eric.
IIIIIDI達r,f璽﹒
科大港台合製“唱談普通話”
先豆、版科大的語盲導師學習普過
話 ，面按當然是最好不過的 ，不行的 話，請打開電棍機。 “與港台合作， 推廣普通話，讓更多人扭 過電棍一面娛樂，一面學習 ，何樂而不為 ︱見尸譚老師與港台早已建立合作的關 係3人六年 ，“識多一點點” 與港台合 作 i 九三年，她又出任 “II昌談普通話” 的 顧問。 科大語吉中心正與香港電台電視 部合作策創新一輯的“唱談普通話” 節目 。科大語言中心的普通話導師﹔︱寄 負責繡寫教學材料，包括語音、基本 用語及詞匯三部分，而香港電台則負 責劇本及節目製作。 現︱時 ，語吉中心的導師正分頭合 讓老師（右三）九三年與“唱談普通話”的演員及導演合攝。 在繁重教學工作以外仍為“ II昌談普通 話，， 貢獻心力 ，還有那麼一點點“私心作 祟”。幫老師原為北京青年藝術劇院的一 級演員 ，八三年來港發展，教授普通話， 作，為節目編講義， 出提綱，與節目導演互相 配合，務求﹔佛教學與戲劇共冶一姐。煽寫教材 以外，他們也就劇本的語吉提供意見，錄音供 演員模仿練習 ，並會到拍攝現場，指導及糾正 演員的聲音。新一輯的 “唱談普通話，， 將有十 集，預計於明年初推出。 6 語育中心首席導師唐世陶表示：“我們希HKUST
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endar
12 June, 1-2 pm Piano Recital by Susan ChanExposition Hall
20 June, All Day
Annual Dragon Boat Races
Sai Kung Pier 22 May- 7 Jtme, All Day
EEE Students' Final-Year Project Posters
Academic Concourse
23 25 Jtme
Asia Pacific Conference on Science and Management of Coastal Environment
24 Jw1e -17 August
Engineering Summer School
Home
Affairs
• Maggie Au Leung Yee (PO) armotmcesher marriage to LEUNG Tik Kai on 30 April 1996.
• Isabella WONG Mo Yin (ARR) an-nounces the birth of CHING See Nga on 11 April 1996.
• HONG Yu-Hung (SOSC) 削1otmcesthe
birth of HONG Wai Yan on 20 April 1996
• Kimberly CHANG (SOSC) announces
the adoption of Kylie PRur1sro-CHANG
on 23 April 1996.
Announcement
• Salaries will be paid on Wednesd旬， 26]
tme 1996. 月薪將於六月二十六日發放。 望為推廣普通話，貢獻出一點力量。我們也希 望透過節目 ，讓更多人認識科大，了解詣吉中 心中文部在教授普通話方面昕作出的努力。” 自九四年創辦普通話課程至今，普通話學生的 數目不斷增加 ，而導師的人敏，也由原來的三 人增至九人。 -tk便是十三年。 “我本來是搞戲劇的 ，這吹 與港台合作，不能抹殺的是找個人的私心。我 已經很多年沒有搞過戲劇了 2八六年一次，九 三年搞過一吹，但後來到科大做開荒牛 2又停 了下來。從九三年到現在，已經三年了，實在 有點技痕，希望過一過癮，既以港台來找我， 負責是項合作計創的語吉導師輝成珠說： 我非常高興。”眉目傳情
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生物導彈
單克隆抗體
“語言証彈”給人的印象，是準確性高而摧毀能力強
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科大生物技術
研究昕主任、生物化學系鄭天佑教授指出 ，在生物學和醫學領域裡的 “生物導彈”’是一種特殊的抗髓，它的名字叫單克︱逢抗體 (Monoclonal Antibodies）。這種抗體和戰場上的導彈般，能夠識別引致 瘤l鍾的單一抗原，然後產生對抗它的抗體。用來治療癌症3單克！進抗體 可以在體內準確地找到病姐：部位 2 殺死該處的癌細胞而不殃及正常組 織﹔單克隆抗體還有一個優點，它能夠無限增瘟和不斷產生抗體，這卻 是戰場上的導彈既不能及的 。 單克隆抗體是一種靠人工合成的兔疫球蛋白，由英國分子生物學家 柯勒與米爾斯坦於一九七五年 ，運用雜交腫瘤技術首次成功合成和分離 得到。一經問世3它立即引起科學界的極大關注，世界各國的科學家都 不遺餘力地研究它在醫學診斷、疾病（尤其是癌症）的治療以及生理機 能研究等方面的應用 。柯勒與米爾斯坦也因此獲得一九八四年諾貝爾生 理醫學獎。 “生物導彈” mm好，但來之不易。單克︱盜抗體是由 B－淋巴結IJJ包 （簡 稱仔細胞）和骨髓瘤細胞在體外融合成雜交瘤細胞 3 並鱷無性繁瘟後才 能得到•B－細胞是從動物脾j獻中分離出來 ，其功能是分泌出抗體 2骨髓 街到IIJI包則具有在體外無限繁撞 的能力 ，二者結合才能待到這 種獨具特色的 “生物導彈”。 不過柯勒與米爾斯坦提出 的雜交搞技術會產生大量副產 物，要得到高純度的單克隆抗 體，需要經過相當辛苦的篩選 和純化處理，過程需要兩個月 的工夫。 鄭天佑教授目前新研究的 製備單克隆抗體新方法一一 細胞電融合法（PulsedElec-tric Field Method），就是要 改善選擇性低和副產物多的問 題，從而提高單克隆抗體的產 量和縮短合成既需要的時間。
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能產生單克隆抗體和 無限繁殖的雜交瘤細胞 鄭天佑教授用細胞電敲合方法，製（詩雜交瘤細胞。 鄭天佑教授所研究的細胞電融合法，其巧妙之處，在於融合過程中 引進了一個穿針引線的 “月老”一一一種由抗原和親和京組成的複合分 子。它﹛象月老手中的紅線，能選擇出適當的 B－細胞和骨髓瘤細胞，把它 們 “撮合”在一起，然後在電場的作用下， B－細胞和俑，髓痛割IIJJ包彼此融 合，產生了雜交瘤細胞。細胞電融合 的過程一般只需數秒至數分鐘。用此 方法得到的學克︱逢抗體純度較高 ，因 而省略了大量篩選純化過程，簡化了 操作步膀，大大縮短整個合成昕需要 的時間。 細胞電融合作為一門重要的生物 技術2現已廣泛應用在農業上，作為 改良牛、羊等牲畜品種，和農作物品 種常用的方法，至於在合成單克隆抗 體方面的應用 ，則是生物學領域上一 項創新的嘗試。 目前鄭天佑教授正在 利用電融合法，製備專門對抗鼻癌的 E拉克︱逢抗體，如果獲得成功 ，將會為 細胞生物技術的應用帶來又一新突 破。 但哥 大學能否澄清有關懷孕期間申請病 假的政策？我聽聞曾有一名懷孕的同事致 電回校講悟，但在上司施壓下，帶病上 班。 勻夸人事處處長霍林佩文覆 1管有 沒有牽涉到懷孕的因素在肉，大學的病假政 策適用於既有教職員。一般來說 2 大學要求 申請超過兩天病1目的同事出示醫生證明，但 在有需要時，申請兩天或少於兩天的病假， 也可能需要出示醫生誼明。在行使上述斟酌 二十年前，鄭天佑教授首先發現細胞電穿孔現象， 細胞電融合技術便是由此衍生出來。 權峙，直屬上司既要適當照顧有關同事的福 的保險計釗而又接納中醫的，為數不多 。由 利，也得同時防止可能出現 j監用病假的情 於沒有一套政府確認的中醫註冊制度3保險 況。” 公司對此多表猶疑的態度。個別保險計劃可 能將中醫納入保障範園 ，但多限於保費高 但哥據我所知， 一些醫療保險計劃的保障範 昂，受保範聞狹窄。此外2大學也需考慮其 園也包括中醫。承保大學醫療的保險公司會否 他同為大學教育資助委員會資助的大專院校 採納這種做法？ 的教職員及公務員享有的醫療福利 ，相互保 罕宰人事處處長霍林佩文覆 ﹒ “人事處經常 持平衡的問題。” 與大學的醫療保險商保持聯絡，了解本地醫療 保險市場的最新發展。據我們昕知 ，現時完善 (t青將問題傳真至23580537或電子郵遞genesis•) 同創 一九九六年六月五日7
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動力迎夏日
三ζ是炎炎夏日
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又到暫且鬆一口氣的︱侍候
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更是舒展筋倆個痛快的大好良辰
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科大校園早叫做移姿的活動
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馬上查一查
學生事務處舉辦的活動資料H巴1 下面為部份活動的詳情3適合教職員一家大小齊來參與﹒賽龍舟：
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為i學備六月二十日在西貢 碼頭舉行的龍舟競賽，科 大的教職員及同學這個月 正處於積極備戰狀態。今 年3科大將參加男子及女 子大龍舟（二十人）及小 龍舟（人人）賽。歡迎大 家在比賽當天到現場打 氣。科大教職員會將準備 一部巴士接載大家到碼頭。8
圖 勇潛水： 香港潛水訓練學院院長李健光說： “不要被去年的鯊魚襲人事件嚇怕 2不敢學習潛 水。”李院長負責安排由學生事務處舉辦的潛水課程。他希望今年會有更多人參加潛水 謀程。他說 “鯊魚襲擊令參加的人數偏低，但人們怕了鯊魚 ，只因他們對鯊魚一無所 知。鯊魚其實是海洋最美麗的生物之一。一且你對潛水信心十足，我敢說你還想見見牠 們的真面目 l哩 1 ” 詳情請致電內線 6690聯絡體育導師梁歡蕙或李健光院長，電話 2334 7543/7568。八卦掌：
． 踮腳尖： 每星期二下午 3 校園的小住 客，五歲到七歲的小朋友，都 可以在 LG1027室參加芭蕾辦班，導師為 Caroline Trostel O查
詢詳情請致電2358 8295聯絡克
遜太太Gean Hudson）。
八卦掌師傅馮森源在第一節課先來考考同學的功力 。在中國三百五十門武術 中 ，八卦掌是三套 “內家拳” 之一，另外兩套為太極及形意。八卦掌班逢星期 六下午三時在LGl 體育餾外的空地上課。查詢詳情請聯絡科大教職員會鄭傑 明 3電子郵遞lfo111i11g。
